Best-Selling Mystery Writer You’ve Never Heard Of ?

Japanese mystery writer Miyuki Miyabe is “prolific [46 novels], popular and prize-winning” in her own country but largely unknown in the U.S. and other English-speaking countries. She is finally seeing some of her work published for the English-language market, including her fifth novel, The Devil’s Whisper, which just came out. Brief interview at Reuters.

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Benazir Bhutto’s Book Out Soon

“Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated last week at a rally in Pakistan. Harper Collins announced that her new book, originally scheduled for Spring, was completed only about a week before her death. The book, called Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, will be rushed into print as soon as possible, according to […]

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